Following initiation of China’s National Malaria Elimination Action Plan in 2010, indigenous malaria infections in Jiangsu Province decreased significantly. Meanwhile imported Plasmodium infections have increased substantially, particularly Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae. Given the risk for malaria resurgence, there is an urgent need to understand the increase in imported P. ovale and P. malariae infections as China works to achieve national malaria elimination.

In an optimistic edition of the Malaria Minute: If life gives you a river where a road should be, swim across it. If life gives you artemisin waste products, make artemisinin. If life…well, you get the idea.